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A glass techno-cube spinning through space, rocked by a band with the unimpeachably awesome name.

The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere.

With chocolate and other delicacies in the genomic crosshairs, it's tempting to imagine science-fictional scenarios for the future of flavor.

This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.

Mats of extremophile bacteria? Bio-colonized pigments in an ancient aboriginal petroglyph? Or an image of our nearest planetary neighbor? Answer after the jump.

Medical gadgets and the iPhone would seem like a match made in heaven, but device makers have had a hard time finding appealing solutions. Is a blood pressure cuff the perfect fit?

The Bradshaw paintings, petroglyphs found on the lands of Australia's Wanjina Wunggurr Wilinggi people, are perhaps 46 to 70,000 years old�yet their colors remain bright, their figures sharply delineated. A new study suggests that the colors remain vivid because they're alive.

A mystery deepens as more redwing blackbirds turn up dead in the America South. It's likely not UFOs or secret weapons, but the birds' instinctual flocking behavior, that's to blame.

Another advertisement from the Land of People Who Want to Be Toys. Video after the jump.

A team of scientist at Purdue University takes a biomimetic approach to engineering solar cells, appropriating the components of living systems to novel ends.